Our LDAP server is running RFC 2307 groups (memberuid contains a username, not a DN). With our old nscd/nss_ldap/pam_ldap setup, you could list a non-LDAP user (a system user from /etc/passwd) in an ...

Is there a conventional location to store non-secret bulk files that can be accessible by multiple users? I know that I can create a new folder (and set the right permissions) in most places in the ...

On my server (Synology DS212) some files and folders have nobody nobody users and groups. What are the characteristics of this user and group? Who can write of read this file?
How can I change it ? ...

I've got a group (let's say name "group1", ID = 1234) and a user (let's say name "user1", ID="4321"). I want to do two things:
I want that user to change passwords from other members of that group, ...

I have a panning web camera I built, (future robot arm).
The camera pans via a web interface (cgi scripts and JS interface)
which access an arduino. To enable sending of commands via the interface,
I ...

I am currently making a test environment where users will be going through a network administration course with different levels they must complete. Due to the nature of the course, we want to give ...

I cannot enter a directory after creation in a folder with an ACL:
I am attempting to limit rwx access to a folder for just a single group and no one else. I would like to be able to add new users to ...

I have created a group called engineers on two VMs on the same 192.168.56.0/24 LAN. Is there any way the members from VM1 in engineers can view files created by engineers from VM2?
I was thinking of ...

One thing I've noticed in a lot of recent distros is that users all have their own groups with the same name as their user name. What's the purpose of that? Groups are made to group users together in ...

As far as I understand the users in Unix system can belong to multiple groups and one of them will become the primary group for that user. Others will be supplementary groups. All of this User/Group ...